1. Modern Foreign Languages across Long Meadow School

2. EYFS and KS1 EYFS and Year 1
Early Years have continued to sing French songs and answer the register in French. Year 1 have also learnt how to sing ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ in French and have learnt some French colours. They have also learnt some French greetings.
Year 2 have been doing lots of exciting French learning this year. They enjoyed matching numerals and written numbers.
Year 1 French display showing English greetings and their French translation writing by the children.

3. Twitter has been used effectively to record engaging French learning.
Across the school a range of languages are covered using the expertise of adults in different year groups.
The core language for the school is French, in addition the children get tasters of…
EYs – Spanish
Y4- Japanese
Y5- Latin
Twitter has been used effectively to record engaging French learning.
Another very successful Food Fayre was held at Long Meadow this year with many of our Long Meadow families from different countries cooking delicious food for everyone to try!

4. Year 3
Catherine Cheater
Number 0-30
Greetings
Classroom phrases
Adjectives
Vocabulary for spelling skills
Vocabulary for sentence building
Phrases of celebration
Verbs
Adverbs
Asking politely
Masculine and feminine nouns
Punctuation
Vocabulary from a song
Responding to questions
Days of the week
Taking the register
Year 4
Catherine Cheater
Questions, answers and sentence building
Further adjectives
Vocabulary for a game
Masculine/Feminine nouns
Adjectives that precede the nouns
Sentence starters
Verbs
Punctuation
Months
Definite article
Vocabulary from a song
Questions and answers
Phrases of celebrations and greetings
Towns in France
Japanese
numbers, greetings, family members, cultural
differences, myths, festivals, geography, sports,
simple phrases, food/drink, likes/dislikes)
Year 5
Salut!
On holiday
Eating out
Hobbies
A school trip
Latin
Family, food, work, school,
counting, town, military,
body, religion
Year 6
Salut!
Actions
In France
Family
A weekend with friends
The future
Jobs
Early Years
Focus on singing songs in French (colours, numbers, fruits)
Songs – hello, my name is, numbers to 10, days of the week
Year 1
Focus on answering the register in French
Some other French done e.g. greetings
Year 2
Numbers 1-12 – saying and reading the words.
‘How old are you?’
Hello, how are you?, what is your name?
The use of French schemes (Catherine Cheater and Salut!) is embedded across KS2 and progression is evident in teacher planning which covers the NC well.

5. Year 3 – focus on recording some key words learnt.
Progression is evident in the written work recorded in KS2. Teachers have experimented with different ways of organising the timetable to allow for quality recording … longer French lessons every other week, French days/afternoons.
Year 3 – focus on recording some key words learnt.
Year 5 – beginning to write sentences following a given structure.
Year 6 –recording questions and answers in a conversation.
Year 4 – move into short phrases.